The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon : : A Twelfth-Century Epic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Townsend, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Select Bibliography --; Prologue --; Book One --; Book Two --; Book Three --; Book Four --; Book Five --; Book Six --; Book Seven --; Book Eight --; Book Nine --; Book Ten --; Notes --; Index of Proper Names
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512809473; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512809473
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two hundred surviving manuscripts, elaborately annotated, attest both to the popularity of the Alexandreis and to the care with which it was read by its medieval audience.